Looking for Support Bard/Rog (Figh) build

[VanHalen72]

Plan is to build a 32p toon.

Should support/crowd control and be able to find and disable traps and locks. Maybe 1-2 lvl fighter for soloplay.

Any suggestions ? There are so many builts here, I lost it after scanning the first threads. I also never played a bard and have no experience in that line.

My main is Lvl. 15 AA ranger, btw.

Tx folks !!!

[Zadkiele]

First of all, Drow is going to be your best choice for race, as they get +2 to Int, Dex and Cha - even though they are base 28 pts, to a character that uses those 3 stats, they work out as better than 32.

Choose which of the rogue skills you want to keep maxxed, minimum is search and disable, optional are spot and pick locks. UMD is pretty much a given, you don't want to skip it, fortunately it's a class skill for both classes, so will only cost you 1 per level regardless.

You want to take as many bard levels as possible, especially if you are trying for CC, as your caster level affects DCs

OK, now we need to work out your skill points per level, let's take spot (as a person with only a L15 char, you aren't going to be so familiar with the game that you know where the boxes are, so you'll need spot), search, disable and UMD - thats 2+2+2+1 = 7 skill points per level minimum. If you want max open locks, that'd be 9, haggle would be 10.

Personally, I'd go for 8 per level, and only put half a rank per level of open locks - you can catch it up a bit with a second rogue level - this will also give you evasion, which will be very useful, as sometimes you need to go through a trap to disable it, and you will be fairly squishy. There are very few locks in the game that need a maxxed open locks skills. 4 ranks on creation, .5 ranks per level and a bunch of points with the second rogue level will cover you for 98% of the locks in the game.

8 skill points per level on a bard is 14 int. either 18 or 20 charisma, highish (16?) dex, dump wisdom, pump con, you'll need the HPs, rest goes to str.

L1 rogue, then bard all the way. take a second rogue level at some point, the later the better, but getting evasion will help a lot around L10-12 onwards so could be a good point.

Zad

[Zadkiele]

God, how could I forget perform! You'll need 1 skill point per level for Perform (2 during the rogue levels). That would take you to 16 int in the above build.

Zad

[elujin]

cc and multi classing don't mix well

for solo play a meele virtuoso who uses song cc does fairly well even if heavy multiclassed onlything you need is a good perform skill

[VanHalen72]

Tx so far guys.

After scanning some more builds, I quit for suppporter and went for the Genghis Khan build.